Research
03-05-2004, 09:38 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NW Montana / SW Alberta Rockies
Posts: 3,258
RE: Research
Hunters are used as a mangement tool, we keep the deer quota in cheque, if you don't believe me, just look at the road kills. A square mile will only support so many deer and beyond that, the quality of health deteriates and survival through the winter for the weak is slim. Also my licenses and me buying hunting items I pay the B/Pitman fund which takes this money from a tax on every sporting goods assiociated with hunting and reintroduces it back to the land. I can go on and on about this subject, but I will stop now, Bobby
03-06-2004, 01:45 PM
#5
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 590
RE: Research
If you focus on regulated sport hunting in the 20th century, I'm sure you'll find a strong correlation between hunting interest in a species and the species population numbers. In other words, the more a species is hunted (under modern regulations) the more that species thrives. It's got to do with the money hunters pour in that gets applied to management programs, like 121553 said. The best cure for a species in trouble is to get a bloc of hunters interested in hunting it.
Examples: whitetail deer everywhere since the '20s, elk in the past 3 decades since the rise of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, turkeys here in the west (ID and MT particularly).
Examples: whitetail deer everywhere since the '20s, elk in the past 3 decades since the rise of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, turkeys here in the west (ID and MT particularly).
